Talk about what you think is the most important skill you need as a high school student.
You can use the following questions as cues:
* Which skill is it?
* Why is it important?
* What problem people may have if you don’t have that skill?
Useful languages:
Complete the notes:
Now you try!
Give your answer using the following cues. You should speak for 1-2 minutes.
1. it’s important for...students to...
2. Moving from secondary to high school means...
3. We are really busy with..., so it’s difficult to...
4. Students like us are always...
5. We can only feel relieved when...
6. We are stressed because...
7. We are depressed as we...
Now you tick!
Did you ...
- answer all the questions in the task?
- give some details to each main point?
- speak slowly and fluently with only some hesitation?
- use vocabulary wide enough to talk about the topic?
- use various sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) accurately?
- pronounce correctly (vowels, consonants, stress, intonation)?
Let’s compare!
Finally, compare with the sample answer on page 170.
